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The dvd thing was terrific. I wish I could say I saw it coming. It's a good example of detail-conscious storytelling, too, the way it payed-off little things that were set-up long ago. It was all very surprising, yet very inevitable.
I always gets psyched when I see new posts in this thread, just because I dig reading your musings on the show so much.
That one. Game over.
"Breaking Bad" is what happens when you don't have Universal Health Care.
In Sweden, Walt AND Hank's total medical bill would probably not go above $1000 ... combined.
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Actually I checked with the current pricing and exchange rate, and assuming the series depicts less than a year, Walt *AND* Hank would have paid $769 combined in health care.
In Sweden, you pay $20-$40 for a doctors visit, and about $30 per night you need to stay in a hospital (doesn't matter if that is a triple bypass, hip replacement, or an ingrown toenail being polished).
When your costs reach $165 during a year, any care for the rest of the year is free.
Prescribed drugs are not free, but for them there is also a a "per-year ceiling", so anything beyond $330 is free.
Non-prescribed drugs - you are on your own. But they are reasonably cheap (and you need a prescription for almost anything more complicated than aspirin anyway).
Dental care is free until you are 20, after which it is a bazillion dollars per second.
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Dan Houser, the overlord of GTA, has said he doesn't watch Breaking Bad, The Wire, or any other crime series because he doesn't want to imitate it and seem hokey.
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